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...Ideal Date: Faculty Dinner What do you look for in a girl/guy: Objective unattractiveness and a position of authority Where to find you on a Saturday night: Watching “The Island” with my roommate. We have no friends other than each other Your best pick-up line: ...you gonna eat that? Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: You’re being too hard on yourself Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: No, I am not hooking up with Jamison! Favorite childhood activity: Desperately trying to find...
...after their deaths. But Don McLean's 1971 single "American Pie" turned the plane crash into a metaphor for the moment when the United States lost its last shred of innocence. McLean envisioned that last Buddy Holly concert in Clear Lakes, Iowa: teenagers in pink carnations and pick-up trucks, dancing and falling in love and dancing some more. The snow fell silently outside as the country teetered on the brink of the 1960s; no one in the ballroom had any idea what would happen next...
...basketball team - Duncan spent four years playing professional basketball in Australia. (He went Down Under after first trying out for the Boston Celtics.) While in Australia, Duncan also tutored underprivileged students. He was among the friends who played basketball with Obama on Election Day and has played pick-up games with Michael Jordan...
...reality is that without any representation on the city council, Jerusalem's tax-paying Arab residents are given short shrift in the allotment of schools, clinics and such basic services as mail delivery and garbage pick-up. Jerusalem's new pragmatic mayor Barkat made his huge fortune mastering the intricacies of cyberspace. He may find that virtual world a cinch compared to Jerusalem's seething complexities. - with reporting by Jamil Hamad and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem...
...Jenin and Nablus, all they had to worry about were the armed criminal gangs who had been shaking down shopkeepers and stealing cars - it didn't take long to wrest control from the thugs. But Hebron, where 600 Palestinian forces rolled up over the weekend in shiny new white pick-up trucks, is far more dangerous, because it is a stronghold of Hamas and also the base of an extremist Jewish settler community. The Islamists see the new paramilitary unit as a U.S.- and Israeli-built proxy force to be used against them; while the settlers see the Palestinian security...